Sean Nelson stops by to freak me the fuck out:
"Because poll fraud aside, Idiot American objection to Barack Obama’s mixed-race pallor seems to be the only thing that can stop him now. Despite being the most pluralistic major country in the world, America’s heart is choked by racism, and its land is lousy with overt and covert racists—white people of all ages, classes, and Christian denominations who simply can’t countenance the idea of a black president, no matter how righteous he is, no matter how much better he is than his gnarly white opponent, no matter what, full-stop.
I know, I know: duh. But are there more of them than there are of us? I really hope not, but I have no fucking idea. And neither do you. And neither does any poll.
I’m just saying that every time somebody says the math proves Obama can’t lose, I get ready to vomit blood, because Idiot American somehow always manages to get left out of the math."
Mark Halperin reminds me that Sean is probably wrong:
"Barring an extraordinary shock, Barack Obama will win more than 270 electoral votes on Tuesday, giving him the White House. Hours before voting starts, John McCain has no clear path to reaching that same goal.
In fact, based on interviews with political strategists in both parties, election analysts and advisers to both presidential campaigns — including a detailed look at public and private polling data — an Obama victory with well over 300 electoral votes is a more likely outcome than a McCain victory.
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Actually overtaking Obama in enough states to win would require a combination of factors: Obama's get-out-the-vote efforts have to turn out to be weaker than thought; young voters have to fail to channel their enthusiasm for Obama into actually voting; race has to be a bigger factor than most pollsters currently believe it to be; conservatives have to be more fired up than they have seemed; independents have to be more attracted to the Republican ticket than they have been all year; and, most of all, late-deciding voters have to break disproportionately to McCain. "
For the past few days, this song by Why? is my jams:
For Halloween this year I went as Matt Nichols. Headphones, devil horns, and this face.
